The Grenada gazette., 1887-06-18

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room. He liked good things and ,ns, swss,
things, and didn't care much ,ho1'
any thing else; and the next d,r % ".
cook found Dick dead in a ;el,, ;. ~. Wy
which rs exactly what you might b,r' rO'
expected. '"' nave
But Tom made his way to uboto.
graph of Raphael's Fourth HIM, :,
the Night" which hung on the sit,inr
room wall, and tucked himself intoe
big knot in the cord behind the uictnr.
and went fast asleep. He slept mues
more soundly than the baby did. h,
she walked quite often and lauohsa
and talked. or cried. Dick coulan,,
have reused him this time il he had
been there to try. The room wa,
swept and the picture busted now
and then all winter, and the peo.
ple Of the house talked and
laughed and were busy about Their
work. and company came and wen,
and the wind sometimes howled as i
chased the snow past the windows bu
Tom knew nothing about it After
while the snow came less and less often
and the sun stayed longer each day,
and pretty soon Tom somehow felt the
sunshine all through him, and h,
reused himself and came out Of hi,
snug nest, He locked at himself all /
over very carefully and stretched out
his legs one after another to be sure
that they were all there, and seemed
quite pleased to find that he was a
whole fly. He brushed his head with
his fore legs seven or eight times and
polished off his wings with his hind
legs about twelve times and shook him,
self up in general way good deal.
and then was ready to look around
him. He blundered about the room a
good deal at first, for he couldn't re.
member that he had ever seen the place
before, and his wings felt . little queer
besides; but finally he found himself
on the rail Of the baby's crib. Now,
Tom was an old fly, as you know, be.
cause he lived through one whole win.
ter, and he had had a great deal ofex.
perience. Bat his experience did not
do him much good. because he forgot
1t 50 SUN; and when lie saw the baby
he nearly tumbled over backward in
astonishment. Such big eyes and such
teeth and such pug nose and such fat
cheeks! But even il Tom had not for.
gotten all his experience he might
have been astonished just the same
for everybody was astonished who saw
the baby; she was so remarkably
"bright" and sweet and cunning
and ''active" and Interesting and
absorbing" and "enticing' and Ids.
tracting'' and a great deal more. Ana
when her father and mother first
looked at her in the morning they
were all astonished too, she seemed 50
very much nicer that she did the night
before.
She was lying on her back, jabbins
the air with her fat little fists and
making a long string of good-natured
cooling noises, but her teeth looked a.
if they might bite fly in two without
any trouble. and Tom got away a'fas'
as he could and went over to the win
dow. Outside the trees were bare, but
the sun shone bright and warm ana
there was no snow on the ground.
The sunshine made Tom feel SO good
that he fell to rubbing his head with
great vigor. and polished his wlnss
again and again. and he never in lae
least suspected that he was an old Il!
which had lived over from tho fall DC.
fore. But he did not once think OF
Dick. II he had been boy or g'rl no
would have remembered, but being
fy-well, he was just fy' and tna'
was all.
Tom summed himself in tho windows
and few about the house and fed NM
self we'll, and was merry for long
time; but some time in May he dissp
pcared. and nobody ever knew wns'
became Of him. -Kennet BarIow, /" i"